But in trademark Ajay Rochester fashion, she'd taken matters into her own hands.

"I am a longtime superfan, and there were a couple of times I wrote to the UK version saying 'Hey, I'm like a celebrity in Australia!' They sent me this very polite email saying 'Thank you so much for your submission, but right now it's currently cast for the next 10 years'," she said with a laugh.

One passing comment in an early episode of the season turned into a story that's rather surprised Rochester now she's in touch with the outside world.

She'd mentioned to her campmates that she hadn't had sex in nine years - a revelation she (perhaps naively) assumed would not make it to air, given I'm A Celeb's family-friendly timeslot.

Ajay Rochester cries on I'm a Celebrity. Picture: Channel 10

"It's true, it's so true," she moaned of the near decade-long drought.

"But there's a very good reason for it. The real answer is my kid (19-year-old son Kai) has Asperger's, and that's a full-time job. If you choose to have a relationship in that time, you take (time) away from them. I made a conscious decision. I was asked on dates … it's not like I'm not attractive. People like big-bodied women, people!"